Water too vital to be taken lightly

At one point in my life, I had five children in the military. In visiting them, I flew into many airports. Some were Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; Phoenix; Denver; Las Vegas; and San Diego and San Jose, California.

I believe in helping fellow Americans, but they should help themselves first. In landing and taking off from these airports, you fly over many subdivisions and see the backyards. I would say about half of them had swimming pools.

This in itself isn’t so bad, but as I look down upon them, there wasn’t one person in any of them.

I’m from the Southwest, and it can have heavy cloud bursts and water will run in the streets like fast-flowing streams. A few minutes after it quits, it’s dry as a bone. That’s how fast water evaporates in the dry heat.